Tuesday, November 20

• Spock's dad cast in new Star Trek prequel

  According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ben Cross has joined the crew on the Starship Enterprise.
  
  The British actor has been cast as Spock's father in the J.J. Abrams'-directed upcoming Star Trek prequel for Paramount.
  
  Cross will play the father of Zachary Quinto, who has been cast as the young Spock, and husband to the human Amanda (Winona Ryder). Leonard Nimoy, who originated the role, also will be a part of the film.
  
  The movie, which began filming this month, revolves around the early days of the Enterprise crew.
  
  

  Posted 11/20/2007 by

  J.J. Abrams | Winona Ryder | Ben Cross | Zachary Quinto | Star Trek

Friday, November 9

• Ryder to play Spock's inappropriately hot mom in new Trek flick

  The already robust cast of JJ Abrams' upcoming Star Trek prequel has expanded again, with Variety reporting that Winona Ryder (Mr. Deeds, Saks Fifth Avenue Security Camera) has been cast as the Vulcan mother of young Spock, who'll be played by Heroes' Zachary Quinto.

  The prequel's story, written by Transformers scribes Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, chronicles the Enterprise crew's heady Starfleet Academy days, when Spock, James T. Kirk, Scotty and Dr. McCoy all met for the first time.

  While little is known about the film's plot, Ryder's casting does provide some insight into the roots of Mr. Spock's famously impassive personality. Clearly traumatized by his peers' constant ogling of his hot mom, a sensitive young Spock must have had no choice but to shut down his emotions entirely, direct his rage inward and seek refuge in the cold, clinical realm of "logic."

  
  

  Posted 11/09/2007 by Thomas

  J.J. Abrams | Winona Ryder | Zachary Quinto | Star Trek

Tuesday, October 30

• Casting newz: Wright Penn, Ryder, Moore and Kravitz

  Director Rebecca Miller (The Ballad of Jack and Rose) will be bringing her novel, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, to the screen. The indie dramedy will star Robin Wright Penn, Julianne Moore, and Winona Ryder in a story about a middle aged woman whose husband leaves her for a younger woman.

  And overrated rocker Lenny Kravitz is going to make his screen acting debut in Push, an adaptation of Sapphire's bestselling novel about a pregnant Harlem teenager whose life is changed by a teacher at an alternative school.

  
  

  Posted 10/30/2007 by Heather

  Winona Ryder | Robin Wright Penn | Rebecca Miller | Lenny Kravitz

Thursday, October 11

• The real names of your favorite stars

  Would you be excited about seeing a western starring Marian Morrison? Or a screwball comedy starring Archibald Leach? How about a security surveillance video of Winona Horowitz shoplifting? John Wayne, Cary Grant and Winona Ryder are just a few of the hundreds of Hollywood icons who chose to adopt an alias before becoming stars. The Dailies crew recently went behind the scenes to find out why the practice has been so prevalent in Tinseltown over the years. Click here to watch the segment, then check out our list of the real names of some of your favorite stars.

  
  
  

  Fake Names

  Dailies looks at actors who've chosen to change their names.

  Posted 10/11/2007 by reelz

  Dailies | Cary Grant | John Wayne | Winona Ryder

Friday, September 21

• Winona Ryder mounting her comeback?

  Winona Ryder has been laying low for the past few years after that whole shoplifting thing, but times, they are a changin'.

  Ryder has just signed on to the Bret Easton Ellis adaptation, The Informers, a drama about the seedy side of Los Angeles circa the 1980s. She will play a woman recently dumped by her movie producer boyfriend. Gregor Jordan (Ned Kelly) will direct.

  Source: The Guardian.

  
  

  Posted 09/21/2007 by Heather

  Winona Ryder | The Informers